Re: 2nd U2 kit build
Hi Tony & Philip
Hihi. If it wasn't for all you guys finding bugs, ordering kits and
requesting enhancements, Mrs UPL would have somewhat less to complain about
too ;-)
I remember those too, and I
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Hans Summers <hans.summers@...>
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beginnings => was: Re: Re: 2nd U2 kit build
It was nearly 55 years ago I built my first crystal radio set. I was four or five at the time and had discovered a wonderful book in the local library. I had sneaked into the adult section and
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Graham <planophore@...>
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Re: 2nd U2 kit build
LOL = I made my first crystal set when I was eleven. I did it on my bedroom
floor, but first it took me weeks to buy the parts. The most expensive bit
was the brown 500pf variable with brass vanes. I
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Tony Volpe <tony.volpe.1951@...>
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Re: 2nd U2 kit build
Fun times though Tony...
Strange to think that nearly sixty years ago I was sat at the table
making crystal sets and stuff and here I am, still doing it!
I blame Hans..
If it wasn't for him, I would
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"Philip" <pcteee@...>
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Re: 2nd U2 kit build
but do you remember how the frequency ran away when you went anywhere near
the thing Philip?
I had some kits marketed under the name 'HAC' - Hear All Continents. And
you're right, they were
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Tony Volpe <tony.volpe.1951@...>
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Re: 2nd U2 kit build
Tell you what Tony, those Denco coils were expensive...
A lot of my pocket money went towards buying a couple when I was a lad.
Loved the idea of them coming in screen cans and that folded up
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"Philip" <pcteee@...>
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Re: 2nd U2 kit build
Is that a 'Denco' filter?
:))
Do you remember the Denco plug in coils? long ago, I had a regenerative
receiver kit that handled band changes just like that. They were really
terrible things, they
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Tony Volpe <tony.volpe.1951@...>
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Re: 2nd U2 kit build
Done a mod today to make use of Hans pluggable LP filters...
Mounted the filter sockets on some PCB on the lid of the case.
These are coax wired internally and I can just swap out filters without
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"Philip" <pcteee@...>
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Re: 2nd U2 kit build
I love the way you build things Philip.
That stuff looks great.
G0bzb
Tony
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Tony Volpe <tony.volpe.1951@...>
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2nd U2 kit build
Received my second kit this morning....thanks Hans
I had a box ready prepared for it.
This large box is designed so I can tinker with things like
filters power supplies and PA stages hence the roomy
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"Philip" <pcteee@...>
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Re: Exciting news re GPS...
Hi Keith
Yes, it will!
73 Hans G0UPL
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Hans Summers <hans.summers@...>
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Re: Exciting news re GPS...
Good morning Hans (and all),
I am still working towards getting my U2 kit built and on the air and I have been taking note of the discussions around GPS and new versions of firmware.
At the moment
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Graham <planophore@...>
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Re: Exciting news re GPS...
Well done Hans....
Will be nice to get my Trimble unit working again...
Great stuff
Philip G4JVF
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"Philip" <pcteee@...>
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Re: Exciting news re GPS...
Woooop di do!!
bzb
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Tony Volpe <tony.volpe.1951@...>
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Re: Exciting news re GPS...
I can see it now... Ultimate 3 including a real time clock like this one... Tell the new U3 your 10 character grid and watch it keep the transmitter on
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"Paul KE7HR" <ke7hr@...>
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Re: Exciting news re GPS...
That's great news Hans.
I solved the problem with my Up501 gps by adding ferrite beads on every lead connected to the gps. It would seem that gps modules do not like being close to rf fields. It
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Andy Cutland <gj7rwt@...>
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Re: Exciting news re GPS...
Yey, that will be fun.I shall mug every passing Postman for the next few days.:-)
Indeed that would be excellent progress, I do hope that widespread compatibility is achieved.
73 Eddie G3ZJO
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g3zjo <g3zjo@...>
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Re: Exciting news re GPS...
Sounds very good to me.
Will this still be happy with the Adafruit unit and the 100mS pulse width?
73 Keith.
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Keith Maton <nentecular@...>
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Exciting news re GPS...
All
As some of you know, I have what I call a "GPS Simulator" which is an
ATmega88 I programmed to send a NMEA string with the $GPRMC sentence, and
it also has a realtime clock which updates
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Hans Summers <hans.summers@...>
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2.02k installed and working very well
Today I took delivery of 2.02k and some extra LPF boards.
Along with my Adafruit GPS, it's working very well. I've been running WSPR and FSKCW on 30m within the same ten minute frame for a few
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Keith Maton <nentecular@...>
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